FIONA'S POV: Resting his head against mine, Arthur had his eyes closed as he swayed gently from side to side with me in his arms. That was the most serene way that I had ever seen the Alpha, and I swallowed heavily at the realization. The silence that surrounded us felt loud in my ears. Last night had obviously changed something for us both, a line had been crossed — one that we couldn’t ever go back on no matter what we did. We couldn’t ever go back to pretending it had never happened, like the way we had done with the blowjob. It just wasn’t simple anymore. Waking up in Arthur’s arms earlier in the morning, I had half expected a disaster to arise. I had expected to wake up to the cold man I had grown accustomed to. I had expected to be sent back to my quarters without so

